Combination match-safe and cigar-cutter.



No. 668,6!9. Patented Feb. 26, lam; o. & F. E. ANDERSON. COMBINATION MATCH SAFE AND CIGAR CUTTER.

(Application filed Apr. 2, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO ANDERSON AND FRITZ EDGAR ANDERSON, OF STILLWATER,

MINNESOTA.

COMBINATION MATCH-SAFE AND CIGAR-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 668,619, dated February 26, 1901. Application fil d April 2, 1900. Serial No. 11,119. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, OTTO ANDERSON and FRITZ EDGAR ANDERSON, citizens of the United States, residing at 312 East Chestnut street, Stillwater, in the county of Washington and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Combination Match-Safe and Cigar-Cu tter,of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in combination pocket match-safes and cigarcutters; and the objects of our improvement are, first, to provide for cutting off the tip or end of the cigar at the same time and in the same act of raising the lid of the match-safe for the purpose of taking out a match to light the cigar with; second, so to dispose of the tip or end out 013 the cigar that the tip or end will not drop into the match-safe and become mixed up with the matches, but will fall outside of the match-safe, and, third, not materially to increase the weight or size of the match-safe or decrease its capacity for holding matches. We attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side View of the combination pocket match-safe and cigar-cutter closed. Fig. 2 is a back view of same closed. Fig. 3 is a side view with cover raised. Fig. 4: is a front View with cover raised. Fig. 5 is a detail of cigar-tip catcher.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A is the hole in the side of the cover of the combination pocket match-safe and cigar-cutter into which the tip of the cigar is inserted and is cut ed as the cover is raised.

B is the hole in the back of the cover, Fig. 2, through which the tip of the cigar cut off falls out when the cover is raised to the position shown in Fig. 3.

O is the knife-edge on the near side of the stationary cutter. (Shown in Fig. 3.)

D is the knife-edge on the far side of the tip-catcher, which tip-catcheris fastened into the cover, as shown by dotted or broken lines in the cover of Fig. 3.

E is the slot in the tip-catcher through which the stationary cutter with the knife-edge 0 works as the cover is raised or closed.

The combination pocket match-safe and cigar-cutter is so to be held in one hand of the user that the user gets a front view of it.

,Then by inserting the tip end of the cigar into the hole A with the other hand, placing the thumb of the hand holding the safe and cutter on the front of the cover, and raising the cover by pushing upward on it with the thumb the tip of the cigar is cutoff both by the knifeedge 0 as the cutter passes through the slot E and by the knife-edge D in the tip-catcher. Then before knife-edge O on the stationary cutter (shown in the body of the safe in Fig. 3) passes through slot E the tip cut off the cigar drops to the floor of the tip-catcher, and when the cover has assumed the position shown in Fig. 3 the tip cut off the cigar drops out of the lid through hole B, Fig. 2.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The device described consisting of an upper hinged part and a lower stationary part, the said upper part having a side opening and a rear communicating opening, and a slotted plate located beneath the openings, a perforated cutter attached to thestationary part and adapted to enter the slot in the plate and cross the side opening in so doing, whereby the tip of the cigar will be severed and be discharged through the rear opening, all as substantially set forth above.

In testimony whereof We have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OTTO ANDERSON. FRITZ EDGAR ANDERSON. Witnesses:

FAYETTE B. CASTLE, L. B. CASTLE. 

